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Sub-Saharan Africa Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets 1999-2008

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General Info
Provider 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Coverage type 
GBD region
Time period covered 
01/1999 - 12/2008
Data type
Estimate
Summary 

These are IHME results from the paper "Rapid scaling-up of insecticide-treated bed net coverage in Africa and its relationship with development assistance for health: A systematic synthesis of supply, distribution and household survey data," published online in PLoS Medicine in August 2010. These data provides estimates of bed net ownership in at-risk populations, bed net use in children under five in at-risk populations, and trends in the scale-up of LLIN in 44 African countries for the years 1999-2008.

Keywords 
Insecticide-treated bednets, Malaria
Related publications and visualizations 
Rapid scaling-up of insecticide-treated bed net coverage in Africa and its relationship with development assistance for health: A systematic synthesis of supply, distribution, and household survey data
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Contributors 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Funders 
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF)
State of Washington
Publisher 
Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME)
Publication year 
2010
Suggested citation 

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. Sub-Saharan Africa Insecticide-Treated Bed Nets 1999-2008. Seattle, United States: Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, 2010.

GHDx Entry last modified on: Nov 6, 2018